Saturday, September 30, 2017

Well, we’ve been here for a week now and it has flown by incredibly fast.  Today it was time for the usual Saturday chores—laundry, cleaning, vacuuming, and a little grocery shopping for next week.  We walked early and everything still looked gorgeous.  I’m a little worried about how this community will look when all the fallen leaves have left the trees bare and hope it isn’t melancholy. 

In this time zone, we can’t watch the first session of Conference until Noon since we can’t see it before it airs live!  😊  So, it’s 10:00 p.m. and the Priesthood Session just ended.  We drove to the Visitor’s Center to watch the first session and it was shown in a huge auditorium on a gigantic screen.  It was mostly missionaries who attended.  Near the end the satellite signal kept failing, so there were interruptions.  However, there immediately were devices all over carrying the speaker until reception on the big screen was restored.  We decided to watch the afternoon session and Priesthood session in our apartment on my laptop which has great speakers and a good-sized screen.

The Conference messages were inspiring as usual, but we really missed seeing and hearing from Pres. Monson.  His absence definitely left a void.

Pretty soon I’ll tire of showing cute squirrels if perchance the sightings lose their novelty.  This little critter keeps coming up onto our patio.